A ditch runs quietly across Applewood, carrying Clear Creek water past back fences and under driveways, and the neighborhood has been green because of it for a very long time. Serenity Lawn Care works the yards along those blocks in both directions of the year — mowing, trimming and edging through the growing months, then plowing drives, shoveling walks and treating ice when storms spill down out of the canyon mouth. Winter here is fickle: a foot on Tuesday, bare and sixty by Friday, North Table Mountain going white to brown and back again. That means being ready either way, and being early. A drive opened before breakfast in January, a lawn cut sharp in July — same job, same idea, a place at ease with itself.